Last November, I was doing my annual Black Friday Christmas shopping (online, as usual), when I came across an Air New Zealand fare mistake on a blog I follow.
$600 to Auckland. Round Trip.
New Zealand has always been a place I'd like to visit, but to say it wasn't on my radar right now with…
Thoughts and prayers:
Heartbreaking news out of Florida. Jane and I send our prayers to the school, the community, and the victims of this tragedy. — Rob Portman (@senrobportman) February 14, 2018
Rob Portman is up to $3,061,941 in donations from the NRA, an organization that exists to protect the profits of gun manufacturers, despite a…
Columbus has made the first cut for Amazon's HQ2, so it's probably time to start taking this seriously.
The Columbus bid should still be viewed as a long shot, but making the top 20 of 238 bids is impressive, especially when considering what cities have been offering.
So what did Columbus offer?
Luckily for us, the…
Really stop and think for a minute about how Columbus residents don't get a legitimate opportunity to elect city council members.
The audacity of how our city council sausage gets made is breathtaking.
Zach Klein stepped down as City Council president after winning election to be Columbus City Attorney and so Council has appointed realtor…
Charter schools are in the news again today and it will probably not surprise you to learn they are still dumpster fires:
"even when excluding dropout-recovery schools, the four-year graduation rate of charter schools in Ohio is just under 45 percent, faring worse than public schools in Ohio’s six largest cities. Schools in Columbus, Cleveland,…
Reuters dropped a bombshell report on Tasor usage in United States prisons yesterday, and it focused on incidents in Franklin County Jail.
Serious warning, this is upsetting reading:
Reuters documents 104 prisoner fatalities after corrections officers deployed Tasers, often with other force. Most inmates were unarmed, and many were handcuffed or pinned to the ground. Some…
If you don't have kids, you might not realize Halloween has gotten complicated.
First of all, it's a rolling holiday, with traditional Halloween wear-your-costume-and-receive-candy events happening all month.
Then there's the school costume event, sometimes with costume parade.
And finally, the neighborhood trick or treat.
It's not simple on the passing out candy side either. The age range…
I would be surprised if climate change hasn't been on everyone's mind the last two months.
Hurricane season was historically catastrophic, of course, but even apart from that I've heard comment after comment this October about how eerie it is to be experiencing temperatures consistently in the 80's so late in the season here in…
Hot Chicken Takeover Founder Joe DeLoss with Mayor Andrew Ginther.
The man is a marketing genius.
Joe Deloss started as an investment banking analyst, and now owns one of the most successful local restaurants in central Ohio. It's not hard to envision the best selling business book that he'll write in the future, running down the…
Thrillist.com, a website that does these sorts of lists and rankings (sample: Every State, Ranked by How Miserable Its Summers Are - We're #26!), has created a list of most obnoxiously rich suburbs of the top 35 cities in America.
Columbus has fierce competition in this category (Upper Arlington, Dublin, Powell, Grandview, Bexley ... hmm),…